[OMPI devel] OMPI 1.4.2rc3

2010-04-28 Thread Ralph Castain
This release candidate is pretty identical to rc2 - only changes were to correct some minor warnings and prep for final release (update NEWS, README, and VERSION). Please give it a whirl so we can get this out! Ralph

[OMPI devel] Porting OpenMPI to a new system

2010-04-28 Thread Ioannis E. Venetis
Dear all, In the past I have used OpenMPI to develop some (simple) applications. At this point, we need to port OpenMPI to a new system being developed. I need some help to understand where to start making changes in order to support this new system, as my search didn't reveal something quite

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI: Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-04-28 Thread Samuel K. Gutierrez
Hi, Faster component initialization/finalization times is one of the main motivating factors of this work. The general idea is to get away from creating a rather large backing file. With respect to module bandwidth and latency, mmap and sysv seem to be comparable - at least that is what

[OMPI devel] shared library versions in 1.4.2

2010-04-28 Thread Jeff Squyres
I propose the following for 1.4.2. Can someone double check this? Index: VERSION === --- VERSION (revision 23057) +++ VERSION (working copy) @@ -70,17 +70,19 @@ # be affected by changes to inlined functions in OMPI's # hea

[OMPI devel] 1.4.2 NEWS file

2010-04-28 Thread Jeff Squyres
I just updated NEWS on the trunk to reflect all that has happened on the v1.4 branch since 1.4.1: https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/browser/trunk/NEWS#L59 Feel free to edit and correct anything I stated wrong, add issues I missed, etc. Please review this in the immediate future; it looks l

Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI: Request for Community Input and Testing

2010-04-28 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Samuel K. Gutierrez wrote: > With Jeff and Ralph's help, I have completed a System V shared memory > component for Open MPI. What is the motivation for this work ? Are there situations where the mmap based SM component doesn't work or is slow(er) ? Kind regards,

Re: [OMPI devel] How is a MPI process launched ?

2010-04-28 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
I'm not sure I understand - A and B are in front of the firewall/nat, and C is behind it? And A and C are the "real" mpi processes, and B is just a proxy? I'm not sure why you'd need a communication proxy to send all traffic thru; what you really need is something like a connection manager proxy